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Jianhao Du is a robotics researcher whose work sits at the compelling intersection of human-robot collaboration, semantic mapping, and spatial intelligence. His research has primarily focused on enabling robots to build richer, more meaningful representations of indoor environments — not merely geometric maps, but semantically enriched models that capture human activity and context. Du's most significant contribution lies in pioneering semantic mapping through wearable sensor-based human activity recognition. By equipping humans with wearable devices, his systems allow robots to interpret environmental meaning through observed human behavior, bridging the gap between metric maps and human-level scene understanding — work that has accumulated over 40 citations across related publications. He further advanced the field by developing teleoperated and human-guided 3D mapping systems, including innovative approaches leveraging RGB-D sensors and virtual reality interfaces to enable seamless human-robot collaboration during map construction. His 2018 work on robust human-robot collaborative 3D mapping reflects a maturation of these ideas, addressing real-world challenges of completeness and efficiency in autonomous mapping. Collectively, Du's research demonstrates a consistent vision: that robots become more capable and intelligent environments navigators when humans and machines work together, combining wearable sensing, VR technology, and collaborative autonomy to tackle complex spatial challenges.